Friday, July 9, 2010

The CTM Blog

In order to keep people up to date on the goings on at the Connecticut Trolley Museum, I have decided to start this blog. I got the idea from the Hicks Car Works blog. They have done an amazing job in keeping people interested in IRM and up to date on the happenings of the Electric Car Shop. I can only hope that this blog will turn out half as good as that blog.

The layout and design of the blog is still a work in progress, but I felt that I should get it up, and then finish working on the finer details. Be sure to check back soon for updates.

About this Site

"Connecticut Company" is NOT an official blog of the Connecticut Trolley Museum. The articles posted within this site are the views of the contributors only and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organization.

This blog site is named after the original Connecticut Company or ConnCo, which ran trolleys throughout Connecticut from 1910 to 1948. ConnCo was a subsidy of the New Haven Railroad. By 1948, ConnCo converted all trolley operation to buses, and the era came to a close in Connecticut.

However, eight years prior, in 1940, the Connecticut Electric Railway Association was formed in an effort to preserve a streetcar from Hartford. In 1941, CERA saved its first car, ConnCo 65 from the scrapper. When trolley service ended in 1948, CERA saved 7 more ConnCo cars.

Today, the Connecticut Trolley Museum is the oldest incorporated museum dedicated to railway preservation in the country. Although not the largest, CTM's has a collection covering many of the major types of trolley cars including streetcars, interurbans, elevated cars, and work cars from the Northeast, Midwest, Deep South and Internationally as well.